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...field. Empty gasoline tins, hammered flat and cut to size, have made many a patch for bullet and flak holes. Said an A.S.C. general to bug-eyed factory engineers back in the U.S.: "Did you know that you could straighten a prop blade by wedging it in the bumper of a two-and-a-half-ton truck, then backing the truck until the kink was gone. ... It was done and the airplane flew...
...days India's official delegate, mild Sir Girja Bajpai, had never dared bring up the bitter question of India's right to petition UNRRA for desperately needed food in time of famine. Sir Girja knew that in Bengal this week there was no celebration of the bumper Aman crop (the December rice crop). There was no celebration, only desolation, and silent villages ravaged mercilessly by hunger and disease. For there was no one left to harvest the Aman crop-the stricken peasants sat on doorsteps mourning their dead families, too tired, too sick to take courage from...
...Kentucky, where 70% of the trade's burley tobacco is grown, a late, wet spring impeded planting, and a dry summer stunted growth. The two bad seasons knocked 25,000,000 lb. off the crop, dropped it some 10 to 15% below last year's bumper harvest. In North Carolina, where 36% of all U.S. tobacco is raised, the story was the same. In the richly odorous curing barns, dopesters whispered that perhaps manufacturers might start rationing retailers...
Labor Shortage. Outside Campbell Soup's Camden, N.J. plant more than 100 freight cars waited to be unloaded of their fat, red cargo. Some 800 trucks, carrying 3,200 tons of tomatoes, stretched down the road in a fourmile, bumper-to-bumper line. Estimated need of southern New Jersey canners: 3,300 able-bodied male workers...
Fellow Traveler. In Los Angeles, Elmer R. Clark grabbed the cable of a run away barrage balloon drifting over his yard, rose briefly into the air, settled again, whipped the cable quickly around the bumper of his car, chased the balloon-towed car across the yard and out to the boulevard, down the street, into a vacant...